August 30, 2023 • 38 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to huge news in Major League Baseball, as the Angels may have just killed any chance they had to retain Shohei Ohtani. Jason believes the Jets will give the Bills a rude awakening to start the season. Plus, Alex Cobb came as close as he could to making history on Tuesday night!
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Baseball tonight, we saw a near no hitter from Alex Kobble.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Have more on that coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But uh, we have something we didn't think we'd see
at this point in the season.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Look at the Mariners at the top of the Al West.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I told you they were going to the World Series. Yes,
they lost to the A's tonight. That is not a
good looking now and the Rangers had the best of
all worlds. They got to play the Mets again. But
the Mariners have come from far back in this division.
They were in fourth place a month ago, not too
fourth place, and they have just played so incredibly well.
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Their percentage chance of making the off seat is now
at ninety percent. They're almost twenty games over five hundred.
They have put it all together. And I'm telling you,
for teams that you worry about, are they playing their
best baseball at the right time the wrong time? The Dodgers,
that's my only concern. Have they peaked a little bit
too early, because you know they are with the thirteen
and a half game lead again, a team that has
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seemed to peak in August, right that's my concern for them.
The Braves not so much. The Braves have been basically
perfect all season long. The Orioles. Orioles have had to
play really, really well just to stay ahead of the Rays.
Both these teams put a lot of energy in The
Rays had the big start, they faltered off a little bit.
But the Mariners are in a perfect spot right now
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because they're a team that has started to peak over
the course of the last few weeks and this is
where you carry this into September into the playoffs. They're
in a great, great spot right now because you gotta
be hot going in. You don't go into a playoff
and suddenly get hot, right That's the the You know,
Derek Jeter, for all that he's done and he did
throughout his career, he summed it up perfectly twenty years
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ago when he said, yeah, you know, I remember he
was asked about, hey, do you think we need more
teams in the playoffs. This is back when there were
you know, still only one wild card, and it was
you know, do you need more teams in the playoff?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
What do we need?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And he said, nope, the best teams get in. The
hottest team wins it. And it's the only sport you
can do that. You can't get hot in the NBA
and win. I mean, it's really difficult. You gotta be
really good go through playoff round after round after round
to win a championship. You can get hot potentially in
the NFL, but with a time off before the Super Bowl.
If you're just team that gets hot as sometimes you
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fall flat, but you get hot in baseball if you
go what you gotta go into the office the postseason hot.
If you go into the postseason not hot, you're gonna
get knocked out very, very very quickly. Look at look
at the Mets last year, look at other teams as well,
but the Mariners are one of those teams in a
perfect spot right now as we get into September, well
and just.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Talk about the fortunes, and it bleeds into what we're
going to talk about here for the next few minutes
of look at in the same division, a tale of
two months right for the Mariners. Everything was wrong, Guys
weren't hitting. Julio Rodriguez was the guy with the monster
year last year, expecting greatness and another step forward, and
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now he's had a month for the Ages right as
they lead and come up with this massive surge in
division as you watch the Angels excuse me, Tom Betty
for free falling. So it's the idea, TJ, that you
have the opportunity here, you know, for your prediction, Like
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we were both on board it a little bit. You
were even Boulder with your Rodriguez MVP. And unfortunately it's
not a one month award. Otherwise, all of a sudden,
it's like, hey, look at that battag average. Look at
what he's done, look at all these little mini records
and streaks he's been on. But it's it's certainly as
you get into September, like we still have a whole
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other month of baseball, Like that's the thing that's you know,
gotta be uh spoken here. You know, Dodgers get another
win tonight nine went over the Diamondbacks. Clayton Kershaw wins
his twelfth of the year, and Mookie Betts and I
have seen it in my timeline a bunch. She's like,
he's already got a career best home runs, and he's
got a month ago great wins, the MVP, all of
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that could be fantastic, But what's gonna happen with pitching
in October? Really? That's that's it, right, That's the what
three hundred million dollar question or whatever the payroll is
for this year, is what's gonna happen when we get
to October? And are you going to be able to
generate runs come playoff time. It's a nice problem to
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have to be able to say, hey, we're going to
the playoffs. Now, it's just a matter how well we perform.
I'd kill to have that kind of situation once a
decade anymore with the teams I cheer for. But for
the Dodgers, yeah, I don't think they're peaking too soon.
It's the unfortunate Evan flow once you actually get to
the playoffs and you have to step up in class,
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right hot bats and do you get enough out of
your starting pitching so that your manager isn't being a
turnstyle with your relieving core. But that's where the fun
comes in. And we'll be here for every night of it,
watching the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
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And now we get to a moment that still baffles
me and I thought it was an onion story. It's
one of those things we talked about, the Ahmed Rosario
Noah Cinderguard trade when Cinderguard got let go, and you're
saying yourself, boy, this is one of the best trades
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or worst trades if you're the Guardians in recent memory,
because you traded away a pretty solid guy who you
weren't going to re sign after the season. I get that,
but you got somebody that you waved. Not even a
month later, you dfa Noahs cinderguard. Right, that's a pretty
bad move. That's a pretty bad trade. You want at
least get somebody you think that is gonna stick around
for you for a little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
And then the.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Angel said, ha ha, hold my beer. It was a
month ago. The Angels decided we're gonna go for it.
We're not gonna try to trade show heyo tani. And
you want to blame somebody, blame the Yankees, because they
beat the Yankees three games into three games set, and
they thought, hey, we can still be really good. Meanwhile,
you fast forward a month, go oh man, wait, the
Yankee stunk too. And so the Angels go for it
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and they make a trade and they trade their second
and third best prospects. I tweeted about this at the
time that I love the move the Angels made. I
love the guts, but boy, did you really have to
give up your second and third best prospect? They trade
those players to the White Sox in exchange for Lucas
Giolito or Ronaldo Lopez. A pretty good starter. Giolito's had
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a pretty good war over the course of his career,
very solid middle of the rotation. Maybe if you're the Angels,
you're thinking maybe be a top of the rotation guy
for the rest of the year. And Lopez is a
pretty good reliever you're gonna throw in there. Okay, they
make the move and it doesn't work out, right, the
Angels are terrible and they've won seven games since and
now they're out of it all right, now, I get
you want to move on. The Angels today put a
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quarter of their roster on waivers, including Lucas Giolito and
Rinaldo Lopez, Giolito, Lopez, Matt Moore, dominic Leone, Hunter Renfro,
not that Hunter Renfro and Randall gritchuck right, and this
stunned major League Baseball. And yeah it should be because
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you traded away two are your top three prospects for
two guys you just put on waivers. Now, why did
the Angels do this? Because if they put these guys
out there, they could potentially save hold on to your
hats seven million dollars in September, because if you take
on one of these players, you take on what is
left in their contracts for this year.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
This is an awful look.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And if I'm show hey, O Tani, I say, why
am I gonna re sign with a team? Because, no
matter how you want to explain this, it's the Angels
doing something ridiculously poor, And so why am I gonna
go here when clearly they have no idea how to
build a championship team right now?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Are Alito is gi Alito a walk away guy at
the end? Yeah? Sure he is.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Okay, so he's a walk away guy. And Lopez is
a reliever, all right, So there's no reason why you
should have given up your second and third best prospects
for them.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
No reason.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And I don't care what kind of farm system you have,
you're talking about the guys, the guys at the top
of your farm system, no matter what team you are,
they're pretty good, right they don't. It's not like they're
to Are they as good as other top players in
the game?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
No, But are they pretty good?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And you're looking for these guys who eventually break in
and and and be part of your team. In fact,
the catcher that they got or is tear it up
for the White Sox in Double A. I said, like
three point fifty with like seven home runs since they
traded for him.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
So that's a horrible.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
That's a horrible move, a horrible to give up.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Now it becomes even worse to say, okay, well we
made the trade. Now we're putting these guys out there
just to save seven million dollars, right, Like, that's what
we're doing. We're putting these guys out there to save
seven million dollars. Now, that's a lot of money to
you and me, but to an owner like Ardy Marina,
seven million really seven million dollars?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
What you're doing, it's.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
A horrible optic to throw out there that that you
see this, and you wonder are they really committed to winning?
Because in a month they decided both these guys stink.
In a month, in a month, they both stink. And
we're not gonna go forward either. We're not gonna try
to resign Gilito, We're not gonna try to keep Lopez.
We're okay with other teams taking on them for seven
million dollars.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
So if I'm Otani.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Where we found Mike Trout going, Boy, could I get
out of this deal and get somewhere else? I'm looking
at this and I go So we traded for guys
to try to win, Okay, we traded away two of
our best prospects, and now the guys we traded away
we decided to move on from a month later because
we need seven million dollars. There's so many things that
I wonder about the Angels organization. Do we have the
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money to make payroll? If seven million dollars is what
we're gonna save, right, does he have you need some cash?
Because Otani's probably okay. Let's sen I could give you
some money to make payroll. So you have guys you've
given away that could be part of your future that
are not for guys that you've decided we're okay with
saying goodbye to them for their share of seven million dollars.
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Not even that these two guys are seven million, But
if all of these guys get picked up, they can
save seven million. With Gielito and more, it's like two
or three million. That's what you're talking about. This is
where I look at the Angels and I go, boy,
if you if you, if you were trying to you
try to push shoe Heyotani out like like like your
Harrison Ford and Gary Olban in Air Force one get
off by plane, and if Otani had any any right now,
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any question of point.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I've been I've enjoyed my time here. Do I stay
to it? This is where I go. Oh, I gotta go.
I'm not gonna win here. We're never gonna build a
winning team here. I gotta go today. Tell that that's
the final nail in the coffin of of should I
leave Anaheim for someplace else?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
That's what happened today.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yeah, the bigger one for me was Manashian uh pointing
over in the other direction. Hey, everybody's blaming us about
scans and tests and everything for Otani's arm after the
you know, fatigue. He didn't want the test. He told
us no, he was good and he was fine with it.
He was gonna be okay, And so we didn't do
the tests. That's a That's the part I got a
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problem with, like the rest of this transactional. You know,
it's it's interesting because you know, we're in the midst
of the fantasy football season. We're talking talking about getting
a nice guillotine league together in and around the Fox
Sports radio facilities, because you know, we love our guillotine league. Smith.
But the idea that this is almost like the fantasy
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league where someone's realized I'm out of it. I'm just
going to release some players that might might have some
impact for the playoff stretcher and let's watch some chaos.
But this also has the implication right there you got
to waiver bids, and if you're using fictional or real
dollars in your waiver wire, then maybe it beefs up
the pot a little bit whatever, or someone's got to
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spend some of their fictional dollars in the waiver world,
that's fine, But for this you've got the implications of
the luxury tax. Right by all accounts, the Angels were
going to be about five million over, and when you
start doing the math, you know it's like twenty percent
is what your first defense would be. So it's a
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couple million bucks that he'd beyond, and I think that's
where that seven million number comes from. But you know
it's also from a co compensatory thing of when guys leave,
you also get ding. There's some rules as that goes.
So if Otani, say, becomes a met see, I'll put
that out there just to be nice, some met or
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a Dodger or whatever insert team here that whatever compensation
would be lessened by being in the luxury tax world.
So the Angels from a business perspective, not just hey,
we don't have the seven million dollars in the petty cash. No,
also the let's strategize so if and when Otani leaves,
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we're not left holding the biggest bag possible, that we
at least get something in return. So that's part of
the process of this as well. And we talk about
going forward, young guys getting an opportunity to shine. Maybe
you decided with this group of players, beyond the financial ramifications,
they ain't helping us. We're losing. They're a terrible reminder
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of what we did. Because Giolito's been nothing but awful. Right,
he was at what about a three and a half
eer with the White Sox hit or miss, had some
great starts, had some horrible starts. Sounds like the rest
of the White Sox organization. We can go through the
timeline of the was there a shooting? Was there not? Oh,
when someone got it in by putting it under rolls
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of fat was the explanation today in terms of a
gun making the premises. So you want to talk about
an embarrassment, and the Angels aren't anywhere near where the
White sox are right now even with this move. But
you know, Geolito comes over and in six starts he's
at what six' eight nine? Yeah right, I mean that's
his Zra right now, and he's just been absolutely dreadful.
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So you're look at it. Are we gonna trot this
out for another month? We might as well get one
of the arms up from triple A or double A
and just say all right, let's see and you go
trial by fire for four starts and if it works great,
If not, hey guess what, you don't break camp with
the big, big squad next April. Right, So, I mean
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there there's learning to be done there. But the luxury
tax is really the the fun part of all of this,
because I gotta imagine you got a number of teams
that immediately logged calls to the Commissioner's office going what
the blank is this? Well, because because it changes the
complexion of what we're looking at for the final month.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And the other part of it too is that is
do you look at and say, okay, you're worried so
much about seven million dollars they have There's not been
one conversation we've heard of Otani's people and the angels
about what it might take to re sign him or
what it's out there. No, obviously things are up in
the air because Otani's not gonna pitch for a long time.
But even up to it, there's been no talking here
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here in the ageles. We gotta save seven million dollars. Dude,
if you gotta save seven million dollars or whatever you
can save of seven million dollars. At that point, are
you really gonna say, here's five hundred million dollars show Hey,
you're really gonna do that.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I mean, come on, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
It's not gonna happen somewhere, you know, when somebody doing.
Here's what you paid seven million bucks for the last
three months Rendon hasn't been available. Here's twenty two million
all the months that Mike Trout has not been available.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
A did you just say only the last three months
that Rendona's been trying to be nice?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
It's really I was saying that for the seven million dollars. Oh,
I was trying to be nice about what he's getting paid,
because it's actually more than that for a three month period.
But I was trying to be nice in terms of
his availability. Uh, but you know that you want to
talk about bad decisions and where things started.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Tada, what why would you resign? Why would you resign?
After this? At? What a clown show? Uh? Twitter exit?
How about a Fresca exit? Swallen Dome.
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Speaker 4 (17:49):
It's just so much fun.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, everybody's gotten to see what happened in Hard Knock,
but crazy day cutdown madness in the NFL. You know,
we saw kickers getting traded. Maybe it should be netflix
kicker instead of quarterback. You know, we follow kickers instead.
Bailey Zappi gets released. The Patriots are down to one
quarterback now because they don't have Zappy. They released Malie
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cunning him. I mean, I know, maybe Tom Brady will
come out of retirement. They have one quarterback now, further
showing that maybe Bill Belichick really is not doing what
he should be doing and maybe this is gonna be his.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Last year in New England.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But one of the other big stories today is that
Cleveland surprisingly cut Michael Dunn. Now maybe you've heard him,
Maybe have. It doesn't matter because they cut him a
few hours after they officially wished him happy birthday. On
the Browns Twitter account, he happy birthday, wished it stayed
up after.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
They cut him.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And I know that that looks bad, but I still
would want people to wish me a happy birthday even
before they're gonna cut me. I'd want to hear them
at least say hey. I mean, I don't want to
go to a party with them, you know, but I
want them to wish me happy birthday. Hey, you're gonna
cut you. Okay, that's great, because you're gonna cut me anyway.
At least you officially, you know, wish me happy birthday
in front of the entire internet, and nugget all kinds
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of people saying happy birthday.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
To me, show me a little bit of love on
the way out the door. There's nothing wrong with that, No,
I dig that. Always say goodbye. I mean, there's nothing
wrong with being cordial. And look, you think he was surprised.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
No, probably not, Maybe a little bit, you never know,
maybe a little bit surprised about wait, wait, wait about
the birthday or about the being cut.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Well, probably more the birthday, though they sent that out
and get Yeah, they're not gonna cut I'm not saying
from a negative side.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
They just wished me happy birthday. They're not gonna cut me.
Come on, oh wow, they just cut me. See, I
would go even further. If I'm gonna cut somebody, let
him go. I would have cake, and I would have
a big cake. And the cake would say sorry, you're
cut or you're fired. And in anyway you're gonna get
cut or fired anyway, but at least now you have
cake before it happens.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Yeah, I would walk in the.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Blow everybody a little bit of love on the way
out the door. They celebrate your time there and off
you go. I can get behind that. I like that.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Yeah, yeah, I get kick. I get cake.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well listen, you're gonna cut me anyway, so but hey,
but I get cake, and I like the cack cake
is pretty good.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Then how long do I have till I have to leave?
I just finish the cake, say you're goodbyes, and then
you can go, all right, great, thanks up here. I
might want another piece? Yeah, yeah, I know the cake
is for you. It's all gonna and what does you want?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Yeah? And then then you go whenever you want to. Okay,
that works fine.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
And then he does an Irish goodbye and he says
nothing to anybody, just leaves.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
That's all. Just we're just walking out.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Just good Yeah it was his last day anyway. Do
you really care?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh he never said goodbye. Yeah, and the guy just
like I think he left like an hour ago. Oh,
I never got to say goodbye him. Yeah, you'll probably.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Never see him.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
He turned a message into the hedges.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
What does that?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Oh? I think he actually uh, he wrote a message
on your car with his key there it is.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Hey, no, that's only you jerk.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Now, listen, I only threatened the key cars. When when
people do things that I'm not happy about, have I.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Really done it? You don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
We don't know, man, And that's that's the problem here,
is that we we don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Maybe I haven't.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
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Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, you mentioned Josh Donaldson just got waived by the Yankees.
He's like the he's like the poster boy for the
Yankees failure of this year. So his signing was such
a disaster. Uh, it's it's it's it's it's it's amazing.
This is a guy that earlier on his career he
had three years with a war over seven, right, but
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he hadn't been really good in a long time. And
the Yankees decide, hey, let's go bring him in and
play him every day when he's thirty six And he
was just a guy barely last year and less than
just a guy this year. He only played in thirty
three games. I mean, just just what a disaster that
signing was for the Yankees. I was alway feeling, hey,
here's Brian Casher going. See I'm already I'm already hard
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at work for next year. I'm clearing out this year.
Can't fire me. I'm I'm in charge of it. I've
put myself in charge of everything. I gotta stay. All
these other guys are gonna go because I'm already working
on twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
How much money does this save him? If somebody claims
him no, I okay, if we're gonna do it to
the Angels, let's do. But I do like that. Give
him the old razzle dazzle, a little Vegas misdirection. See
he was a failure. We fixed the glitch.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I'm gonna give you my first Big Bowl prediction Lock
of the Week for the NFL, and I'm gonna get
their courtesy of hard knocks.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
If you remember last week Jets.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
And the Giants, Aaron Rodgers first action of the preseason,
first action as a Jet, he got into it with
one of the Giants defensive linemen, jahad Ward, and he
went back and forth at him. There's a little bit
of trash talking after ward. Took a few steps after
Rogers threw a pass and hit Rogers. Now clearly you
can't hit a guy after that many steps, but he
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did so Rogers and he go back and forth. And
when he was asked after the game, hey, what happened,
he said, well, you gotta wait for hard knocks because
he goes at it with jahad Ward and then the
next play he throws his touchdown pass to Garrett Wilson.
What did that sound like on Hard knocks? What did
he say to jahad Ward that he's saying you could
not come back from here?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
It is, I just bootleg out to the left, flipping
it left. It's McCall Hartman.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Bro that goes in respect well that five damn said,
I don't know who you are.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Bro I don't know whether you know I'll never hear you.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
And the officials having to depart, jehad Ward and Aaron
Rodger drops back. Love's one.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Brock left my lod get his Garrett Wilson j.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Left that.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
O Cobar.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
I'm not heard of you now.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
I gave him the line it's on comeback with a bull.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
I said, I don't even know who you are. And
he said, he said, I don't know who you are.
I said, quote, I don't know you. That's like a
I don't know you. I don't know who you are.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I don't know you either.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I'm Aaron Rodgers. Man, come on, I know you know
who I am. Let's not I don't know who you are.
So that's Rogers saying, what are you doing man? Because
he did he did take about five steps, and you
can't do It's the it's the uh, the whole Patrick Maholmes.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Du don't punch me, dude, don't punch me. Just don't
punch me.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
He does take a few steps, and that's what Rogers said, Dude,
I had never heard of you. Then he throws the touchdown, says,
you poked the bear. You heard him say a little
bit right there, you poked the bear. I never heard
of you. And then for John Ward, who's like he
doesn't know what to say, says, I never heard of you.
I mean, come really not good? Anything else to say? Yeah,
nothing else that I never heard of you. No, come on, wit,
everybody's heard of him. You gotta get you gotta give
me something better than that. You gotta give me something
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better than that.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
I gotta say one of the things I have enjoyed immensely. Remember,
the foreshadowing was Randall Cobbs saying, Hey, you guys think
it's all fun and good, now just wait. Well the
beginning of the episode, you got to just wait moment. Yeah,
with a bunch of bad work on the practice field.
And I think for f bombs he got, he got
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pretty close to Salah or to what we got from
Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, because he you know, he was doing
some ass there the opening here.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And especially But the thing is because Sala just throws
it in like he says the word all the time,
like there's no emphasis of the word, like he uses
it as an adjective, as an adverb, you know, as
a state of being verb he uses in all different ways,
like like this is how I speak, This is how
I know. Like I'm not gonna say, hey, you bleep
in this, but no, no, no, I'm just gonna say the
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word like it's like I'm saying any other word, like
I'm saying car, like I'm saying like I'm saying toy.
But let me tell you this. Right week one, I
know the Jets are two and a half point under
dogs against the Bills. They are going to smash the Bills.
Is this is not just me, this is not just
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me being Jet fan, But you're talking about a Jets
roster that you know, forget about out what everybody else
you've heard. Oh, I don't like this, So I don't
like this. The Jets roster is loaded. It's a top
three roster in the NFL. Now, on paper, that's great
and you got to prove it. But all that was
missing was a quarterback. Ohays, are we healthy at running back?
We're gonna go get Dalvin Cook, who had his first
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practice with the Jets day. He says, I'm gonna be
ready for Week one already feels very comfortable in the system.
The Jets had one huge weakness, and they bring in
a future Hall of Fame quarterback who has re energized
and has taken command of the entire team. All right,
they just call him eight. They just say eight eight eight.
This is eights team. And you think about MetLife, which
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is going to be ready to bleep and explode after
a decade of sucking and a defense that's already lights
out right now, think about all of that, and now
the Bill's part of it. The window for the Bills
might not be open anymore. They've been really good in
the last few years, but now they're dealing with a
preseason in which they've not looked good on the field,
And every couple of weeks is is Stefon Diggs really have?
(27:00):
Does Stefon Diggs want to be traded? Are they gonna
be able to run the football? Can they throw it
like they used to be able to? The Jets already
beat the Bills last year with Zach Wilson at quarterback once,
So okay, how do you prepare for the Jets offense?
You have no idea what it looks like. You have
no idea. You saw two drives, very vanilla that they had.
That's all you can look at. The Jets are gonna
smash the Bills, and they are going to announce their
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presence with authority for this season. It's gonna be it's
gonna take the NFL by surprise. Wait a minute, the
Bills were the big Super Bowl favorites, and the Jets
go win this game. They win this game big Week one.
Trust me, the Jets are gonna smash the Bills. I
don't even want the two and a half points. I
would say, listen, thank you to the two and a
half points, but I'd like you to offer him to
somebody else who might need them, right like they give
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him to Bill Belichick because clearly he's going in with
one quarterback and I don't know he knows what he's
doing anymore. So give him the two and a half
points he can use whoever he needs. To give him
to somebody else because we don't really need him here
in New York. I'm sorry, Wow, look at you.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
I dig that. I like the confidence. Would you put
a bunch of beer on it?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Will there be beer? Well?
Speaker 5 (28:05):
I mean we've got a bar that says, hey, you know,
if Aaron Rodgers loses you don't pay for your beer, I'll.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Put beer, food, donuts, fat sALS. What do you want?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
What do you want about on that big what do
you want to better? Take the bills, You'll take the bills.
I'll go fat sALS with.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
You, Okay, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
I'll go bougie sandwich, are you or I'll actually go
to Arts Deli?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Okay, and then we'll eat it.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Will video record us eating giant stack sandwiches and send
it to our guy, Jason Cole.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
They are going to smash the bills week one. It's
going to be a shocker and no one's going to
be ready for it. And it's happening. It's happening. I
can't wait to see Sauces Gardner and Stefan Diggs. I
can't wait to see that. I can wait see Josh
Allen going. Uh is Dalton Kincaid ready to play because
nobody else is open?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I don't know, man, You know what.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
This this whole run of hard knocks all of a sudden,
People like, hey, Garrett Wilson's gonna be a problem. He
was a problem with me throwing to him last year.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah oh yeah, yeah, I mean looked at the look
you talked the guy's people. What do you mean he's
the offensive rookie of the year. Suddenly now they're just discovering.
Oh hey he might be pretty good.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
This guy might be good. I don't know. Look out,
come on, man, this guy tell me you didn't watch
last season without telling me you didn't watch last year.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
This is this is the fantasy guy who says Garrett
Wilson might be my breakout player for this year.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
He's broken out. He had seventy seven catches for what
are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (29:37):
He well, he might catch at ninety he's my breakout player.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Oh he might catch one hundred and fifty. Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
As much as as much as Rogers likes lizard and
he may throw something to com and McColl hardman.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, it's gonna be seventeen.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You're gonna see a lot of eight seventeen, eight seventeen
all season long.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Yeah, no, no, no, I mean, look, I was going to
ninety as a joke, just from the breakout potentials, like, yes,
the bass is pretty well established.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Ninety by the bye, I'll say that, and then maybe
more they're gonna smash the bills. Good luck, Rob telling
you Week one, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets especially no Von Miller. No, right,
he's out first four weeks. He's on the pup list.
Jet j The guy, the guy's had so many big
games against the Jets.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Oh, I'm so happy, so happy?
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Why are you? Are you happy the guy's hurt?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
No, I'm happy he's not gonna play. I'm not happy
he's hurt. I'm happy he's not going to play. We
have to worry about him. I'd never want an injury
on anybody, but the fact that he's not playing, I
can't say, oh, boy, I wish he was playing because
he's great.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
So okay, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
It's all of it, anybody. I'm just happy he's not
just happy he's not playing. I'm happy he's not playing.
It's all just happy he's not playing. But we would
still smash the bills regardless whether uh eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine ninety six
sixty three sixty nine, The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Carmen coming up next, the play of the night. We
had a near no hitter in Major League Baseball. Should
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a no hitter. Thirty five year old was mowing down
the reds.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
The Giants had an error. He also walked a batter
of the ninth inning, so there was no shot at
a perfect game. All he had to do was get
Spencer Steer out two outs ninth inning runner at first
a six run lead. Spencer Stears having a pretty good season,
is a pretty good young player, one out of way
from no hitter, and this is the play of the night.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
Oh one pitch, there's a drive in the right side
of field. On the run, Mato's back into his right
and it's over his head. It we'll roll into the
sixth archway and that's the first hit coming around to
score is senzal And to the sixth to one, and
that takes away the no hitter for Alex Kahn.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
KNBR Giants Radio Network on the call. Now, there's so.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Many good things from this because what I'll tell you
what I love first is I love the fact that
Gabe Kapler number one left him in the game to
try to get the no hitter. Because he goes into
the ninth inning at one hundred and thirteen pitches. Dave
Roberts would have been taken him out of the game
in the fourth inning, so.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
He let him in.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
And not only that, after he gives up the hit,
you know, at one hundred and thirty five pitches, it's okay,
time for you to come out of the game because
the Giants are trying for the playoffs. Right there's six
games over five hundred. You know, he's been pitching pretty
well for them this season. Okay, no, no, no, I'm
gonna leave you in to finish this so you can
get the ovation you can get the people come, the
players coming out of the dugout for you everything you deserve.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
I love the fact that Gabe Kapler did that for him.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
That's one of those moves that, as much as you
like a manager, makes you want to play four more
because hey, yes, you threw a lot of pitches and
people are gonna say, oh, it's too many, and you
worry about somebody's arm. Thirty five years old, he's going
for what would be the greatest individual memory of his career.
Not only did he leave him out there to get it,
he left him out there for the complete game to
get everything else coming to him in the celebration after.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I love that Gabe Kapler did that.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Veteran manager, veteran of the game, played in between the
white lines. He knows what this means, right, thirty five
year old, you're also up six nothing. Why burn your bullpen?
You got a guy that's that's going just go out there,
throw nice and easy. Now. Cobb's gonna hate the fact
that he left that one up in the zone to
get hammered as it did, but it was a tremendous
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effort by him. One hundred and thirty one pitches my goodness.
I mean that's three days work for most pitchers these days.
And then you're looking at the fact that that kapler
knows his dugout knows they need a push here going
into the final month. Yeah, do it for the veteran.
Let him finish the job that he started.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Now, here's the other part of it that would drive
me crazy. Is Luis Matos takes a horrible route to
this ball and he gets a bad jump on it,
and he might have been able to get it. Now
Spencer Steeer gives this ball a ride. It's into the
gap and right center. But you watch Matos and the
first thing he does is take two steps in, and
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he's cooked. He's cooked at that point. Then he starts
to take a route to the ball that's kind of
straight across when he needed to go back, and he
winds up leaping in the air and he's not even
close to it.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
He's ten feet away.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Steps forward two step back only works when you're dancing
with Paula Abduel.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
No, And look, and this is what I tell my
outfielders when they play, so listen, your first step is
always back. You can always come in. Your first step
has to be back. And that's true when you're seven,
when you're fourteen, when you're twenty one, when you're playing
in Major League baseball, your first step is back. You
can always commit. And I get that you want to
guard against the looper because you just watched Slater make
a huge play to save the no hitter in the
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eighth inning on a little looper. But you got to
take a better you got to get a better jump,
You got to read that ball better. Right, You've been
in the major leagues a long time, and you had
a horrible jump on it. And not only that, you
had a bad route to it.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
At the end.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Maybe he catches it, maybe he doesn't, but I know
he's got a shot at it, and you know, you
put yourself in the best position to do it. And
I watched Matos and I go, oh, that that's a
horrible route to the ball. He's gotta feel terrible about that.
And if and if.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I'm Cob, I'm like, dude, what the hell was that?
Speaker 5 (37:08):
Man?
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Good, what what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
What was He's gonna watch replay and go oh, that
totally screwed me, That completely screwed me.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
Well, we'll find out a lot about Cob what's that
internal dialogue? Man, I left one up in the zone
and he hammered it. Mine drive not much loft on it, right,
I'm in tough catch as opposed to you know what,
if he's just taken two steps towards that Baltimore Chicago
score at the bottom of the uh the wall, there
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might have been able to save my no hitter and
I'd been making money for the rest of my life
off that.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Ask me the real question, Ask me the real question.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
That I want to ask.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Ahead, say it. Say it out of Fresco exit swollen dumb.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
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Baseball tonight, we saw a near no hitter from Alex Kobble.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Have more on that coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But uh, we have something we didn't think we'd see
at this point in the season.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Look at the Mariners at the top of the Al West.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I told you they were going to the World Series. Yes,
they lost to the A's tonight. That is not a
good looking now and the Rangers had the best of
all worlds. They got to play the Mets again. But
the Mariners have come from far back in this division.
They were in fourth place a month ago, not too
fourth place, and they have just played so incredibly well.
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Their percentage chance of making the off seat is now
at ninety percent. They're almost twenty games over five hundred.
They have put it all together. And I'm telling you,
for teams that you worry about, are they playing their
best baseball at the right time the wrong time? The Dodgers,
that's my only concern. Have they peaked a little bit
too early, because you know they are with the thirteen
and a half game lead again, a team that has
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seemed to peak in August, right that's my concern for them.
The Braves not so much. The Braves have been basically
perfect all season long. The Orioles. Orioles have had to
play really, really well just to stay ahead of the Rays.
Both these teams put a lot of energy in The
Rays had the big start, they faltered off a little bit.
But the Mariners are in a perfect spot right now
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because they're a team that has started to peak over
the course of the last few weeks and this is
where you carry this into September into the playoffs. They're
in a great, great spot right now because you gotta
be hot going in. You don't go into a playoff
and suddenly get hot, right That's the the You know,
Derek Jeter, for all that he's done and he did
throughout his career, he summed it up perfectly twenty years
(02:31):
ago when he said, yeah, you know, I remember he
was asked about, hey, do you think we need more
teams in the playoffs. This is back when there were
you know, still only one wild card, and it was
you know, do you need more teams in the playoff?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
What do we need?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And he said, nope, the best teams get in. The
hottest team wins it. And it's the only sport you
can do that. You can't get hot in the NBA
and win. I mean, it's really difficult. You gotta be
really good go through playoff round after round after round
to win a championship. You can get hot potentially in
the NFL, but with a time off before the Super Bowl.
If you're just team that gets hot as sometimes you
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fall flat, but you get hot in baseball if you
go what you gotta go into the office the postseason hot.
If you go into the postseason not hot, you're gonna
get knocked out very, very very quickly. Look at look
at the Mets last year, look at other teams as well,
but the Mariners are one of those teams in a
perfect spot right now as we get into September, well
and just.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Talk about the fortunes, and it bleeds into what we're
going to talk about here for the next few minutes
of look at in the same division, a tale of
two months right for the Mariners. Everything was wrong, Guys
weren't hitting. Julio Rodriguez was the guy with the monster
year last year, expecting greatness and another step forward, and
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now he's had a month for the Ages right as
they lead and come up with this massive surge in
division as you watch the Angels excuse me, Tom Betty
for free falling. So it's the idea, TJ, that you
have the opportunity here, you know, for your prediction, Like
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we were both on board it a little bit. You
were even Boulder with your Rodriguez MVP. And unfortunately it's
not a one month award. Otherwise, all of a sudden,
it's like, hey, look at that battag average. Look at
what he's done, look at all these little mini records
and streaks he's been on. But it's it's certainly as
you get into September, like we still have a whole
(04:28):
other month of baseball, Like that's the thing that's you know,
gotta be uh spoken here. You know, Dodgers get another
win tonight nine went over the Diamondbacks. Clayton Kershaw wins
his twelfth of the year, and Mookie Betts and I
have seen it in my timeline a bunch. She's like,
he's already got a career best home runs, and he's
got a month ago great wins, the MVP, all of
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that could be fantastic, But what's gonna happen with pitching
in October? Really? That's that's it, right, That's the what
three hundred million dollar question or whatever the payroll is
for this year, is what's gonna happen when we get
to October? And are you going to be able to
generate runs come playoff time. It's a nice problem to
(05:12):
have to be able to say, hey, we're going to
the playoffs. Now, it's just a matter how well we perform.
I'd kill to have that kind of situation once a
decade anymore with the teams I cheer for. But for
the Dodgers, yeah, I don't think they're peaking too soon.
It's the unfortunate Evan flow once you actually get to
the playoffs and you have to step up in class,
(05:34):
right hot bats and do you get enough out of
your starting pitching so that your manager isn't being a
turnstyle with your relieving core. But that's where the fun
comes in. And we'll be here for every night of it,
watching the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Twitter at how about a Fresco Mike get swollen down
the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon.
And now we get to a moment that still baffles
me and I thought it was an onion story. It's
one of those things we talked about, the Ahmed Rosario
Noah Cinderguard trade when Cinderguard got let go, and you're
saying yourself, boy, this is one of the best trades
(06:12):
or worst trades if you're the Guardians in recent memory,
because you traded away a pretty solid guy who you
weren't going to re sign after the season. I get that,
but you got somebody that you waved. Not even a
month later, you dfa Noahs cinderguard. Right, that's a pretty
bad move. That's a pretty bad trade. You want at
least get somebody you think that is gonna stick around
for you for a little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
And then the.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Angel said, ha ha, hold my beer. It was a
month ago. The Angels decided we're gonna go for it.
We're not gonna try to trade show heyo tani. And
you want to blame somebody, blame the Yankees, because they
beat the Yankees three games into three games set, and
they thought, hey, we can still be really good. Meanwhile,
you fast forward a month, go oh man, wait, the
Yankee stunk too. And so the Angels go for it
(06:55):
and they make a trade and they trade their second
and third best prospects. I tweeted about this at the
time that I love the move the Angels made. I
love the guts, but boy, did you really have to
give up your second and third best prospect? They trade
those players to the White Sox in exchange for Lucas
Giolito or Ronaldo Lopez. A pretty good starter. Giolito's had
(07:16):
a pretty good war over the course of his career,
very solid middle of the rotation. Maybe if you're the Angels,
you're thinking maybe be a top of the rotation guy
for the rest of the year. And Lopez is a
pretty good reliever you're gonna throw in there. Okay, they
make the move and it doesn't work out, right, the
Angels are terrible and they've won seven games since and
now they're out of it all right, now, I get
you want to move on. The Angels today put a
(07:39):
quarter of their roster on waivers, including Lucas Giolito and
Rinaldo Lopez, Giolito, Lopez, Matt Moore, dominic Leone, Hunter Renfro,
not that Hunter Renfro and Randall gritchuck right, and this
stunned major League Baseball. And yeah it should be because
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you traded away two are your top three prospects for
two guys you just put on waivers. Now, why did
the Angels do this? Because if they put these guys
out there, they could potentially save hold on to your
hats seven million dollars in September, because if you take
on one of these players, you take on what is
left in their contracts for this year.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
This is an awful look.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And if I'm show hey, O Tani, I say, why
am I gonna re sign with a team? Because, no
matter how you want to explain this, it's the Angels
doing something ridiculously poor, And so why am I gonna
go here when clearly they have no idea how to
build a championship team right now?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Are Alito is gi Alito a walk away guy at
the end? Yeah? Sure he is.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Okay, so he's a walk away guy. And Lopez is
a reliever, all right, So there's no reason why you
should have given up your second and third best prospects
for them.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
No reason.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And I don't care what kind of farm system you have,
you're talking about the guys, the guys at the top
of your farm system, no matter what team you are,
they're pretty good, right they don't. It's not like they're
to Are they as good as other top players in
the game?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
No, But are they pretty good?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And you're looking for these guys who eventually break in
and and and be part of your team. In fact,
the catcher that they got or is tear it up
for the White Sox in Double A. I said, like
three point fifty with like seven home runs since they
traded for him.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
So that's a horrible.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
That's a horrible move, a horrible to give up.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Now it becomes even worse to say, okay, well we
made the trade. Now we're putting these guys out there
just to save seven million dollars, right, Like, that's what
we're doing. We're putting these guys out there to save
seven million dollars. Now, that's a lot of money to
you and me, but to an owner like Ardy Marina,
seven million really seven million dollars?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
What you're doing, it's.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
A horrible optic to throw out there that that you
see this, and you wonder are they really committed to winning?
Because in a month they decided both these guys stink.
In a month, in a month, they both stink. And
we're not gonna go forward either. We're not gonna try
to resign Gilito, We're not gonna try to keep Lopez.
We're okay with other teams taking on them for seven
million dollars.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
So if I'm Otani.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Where we found Mike Trout going, Boy, could I get
out of this deal and get somewhere else? I'm looking
at this and I go So we traded for guys
to try to win, Okay, we traded away two of
our best prospects, and now the guys we traded away
we decided to move on from a month later because
we need seven million dollars. There's so many things that
I wonder about the Angels organization. Do we have the
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money to make payroll? If seven million dollars is what
we're gonna save, right, does he have you need some cash?
Because Otani's probably okay. Let's sen I could give you
some money to make payroll. So you have guys you've
given away that could be part of your future that
are not for guys that you've decided we're okay with
saying goodbye to them for their share of seven million dollars.
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Not even that these two guys are seven million, But
if all of these guys get picked up, they can
save seven million. With Gielito and more, it's like two
or three million. That's what you're talking about. This is
where I look at the Angels and I go, boy,
if you if you, if you were trying to you
try to push shoe Heyotani out like like like your
Harrison Ford and Gary Olban in Air Force one get
off by plane, and if Otani had any any right now,
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any question of point.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I've been I've enjoyed my time here. Do I stay
to it? This is where I go. Oh, I gotta go.
I'm not gonna win here. We're never gonna build a
winning team here. I gotta go today. Tell that that's
the final nail in the coffin of of should I
leave Anaheim for someplace else?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
That's what happened today.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yeah, the bigger one for me was Manashian uh pointing
over in the other direction. Hey, everybody's blaming us about
scans and tests and everything for Otani's arm after the
you know, fatigue. He didn't want the test. He told
us no, he was good and he was fine with it.
He was gonna be okay, And so we didn't do
the tests. That's a That's the part I got a
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problem with, like the rest of this transactional. You know,
it's it's interesting because you know, we're in the midst
of the fantasy football season. We're talking talking about getting
a nice guillotine league together in and around the Fox
Sports radio facilities, because you know, we love our guillotine league. Smith.
But the idea that this is almost like the fantasy
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league where someone's realized I'm out of it. I'm just
going to release some players that might might have some
impact for the playoff stretcher and let's watch some chaos.
But this also has the implication right there you got
to waiver bids, and if you're using fictional or real
dollars in your waiver wire, then maybe it beefs up
the pot a little bit whatever, or someone's got to
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spend some of their fictional dollars in the waiver world,
that's fine, But for this you've got the implications of
the luxury tax. Right by all accounts, the Angels were
going to be about five million over, and when you
start doing the math, you know it's like twenty percent
is what your first defense would be. So it's a
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couple million bucks that he'd beyond, and I think that's
where that seven million number comes from. But you know
it's also from a co compensatory thing of when guys leave,
you also get ding. There's some rules as that goes.
So if Otani, say, becomes a met see, I'll put
that out there just to be nice, some met or
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a Dodger or whatever insert team here that whatever compensation
would be lessened by being in the luxury tax world.
So the Angels from a business perspective, not just hey,
we don't have the seven million dollars in the petty cash. No,
also the let's strategize so if and when Otani leaves,
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we're not left holding the biggest bag possible, that we
at least get something in return. So that's part of
the process of this as well. And we talk about
going forward, young guys getting an opportunity to shine. Maybe
you decided with this group of players, beyond the financial ramifications,
they ain't helping us. We're losing. They're a terrible reminder
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of what we did. Because Giolito's been nothing but awful. Right,
he was at what about a three and a half
eer with the White Sox hit or miss, had some
great starts, had some horrible starts. Sounds like the rest
of the White Sox organization. We can go through the
timeline of the was there a shooting? Was there not? Oh,
when someone got it in by putting it under rolls
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of fat was the explanation today in terms of a
gun making the premises. So you want to talk about
an embarrassment, and the Angels aren't anywhere near where the
White sox are right now even with this move. But
you know, Geolito comes over and in six starts he's
at what six' eight nine? Yeah right, I mean that's
his Zra right now, and he's just been absolutely dreadful.
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So you're look at it. Are we gonna trot this
out for another month? We might as well get one
of the arms up from triple A or double A
and just say all right, let's see and you go
trial by fire for four starts and if it works great,
If not, hey guess what, you don't break camp with
the big, big squad next April. Right, So, I mean
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there there's learning to be done there. But the luxury
tax is really the the fun part of all of this,
because I gotta imagine you got a number of teams
that immediately logged calls to the Commissioner's office going what
the blank is this? Well, because because it changes the
complexion of what we're looking at for the final month.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And the other part of it too is that is
do you look at and say, okay, you're worried so
much about seven million dollars they have There's not been
one conversation we've heard of Otani's people and the angels
about what it might take to re sign him or
what it's out there. No, obviously things are up in
the air because Otani's not gonna pitch for a long time.
But even up to it, there's been no talking here
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here in the ageles. We gotta save seven million dollars. Dude,
if you gotta save seven million dollars or whatever you
can save of seven million dollars. At that point, are
you really gonna say, here's five hundred million dollars show Hey,
you're really gonna do that.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I mean, come on, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
It's not gonna happen somewhere, you know, when somebody doing.
Here's what you paid seven million bucks for the last
three months Rendon hasn't been available. Here's twenty two million
all the months that Mike Trout has not been available.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
A did you just say only the last three months
that Rendona's been trying to be nice?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
It's really I was saying that for the seven million dollars. Oh,
I was trying to be nice about what he's getting paid,
because it's actually more than that for a three month period.
But I was trying to be nice in terms of
his availability. Uh, but you know that you want to
talk about bad decisions and where things started.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Tada, what why would you resign? Why would you resign?
After this? At? What a clown show? Uh? Twitter exit?
How about a Fresca exit? Swallen Dome.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
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Speaker 4 (17:22):
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Speaker 4 (17:49):
It's just so much fun.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, everybody's gotten to see what happened in Hard Knock,
but crazy day cutdown madness in the NFL. You know,
we saw kickers getting traded. Maybe it should be netflix
kicker instead of quarterback. You know, we follow kickers instead.
Bailey Zappi gets released. The Patriots are down to one
quarterback now because they don't have Zappy. They released Malie
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cunning him. I mean, I know, maybe Tom Brady will
come out of retirement. They have one quarterback now, further
showing that maybe Bill Belichick really is not doing what
he should be doing and maybe this is gonna be his.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Last year in New England.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
But one of the other big stories today is that
Cleveland surprisingly cut Michael Dunn. Now maybe you've heard him,
Maybe have. It doesn't matter because they cut him a
few hours after they officially wished him happy birthday. On
the Browns Twitter account, he happy birthday, wished it stayed
up after.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
They cut him.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And I know that that looks bad, but I still
would want people to wish me a happy birthday even
before they're gonna cut me. I'd want to hear them
at least say hey. I mean, I don't want to
go to a party with them, you know, but I
want them to wish me happy birthday. Hey, you're gonna
cut you. Okay, that's great, because you're gonna cut me anyway.
At least you officially, you know, wish me happy birthday
in front of the entire internet, and nugget all kinds
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of people saying happy birthday.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
To me, show me a little bit of love on
the way out the door. There's nothing wrong with that, No,
I dig that. Always say goodbye. I mean, there's nothing
wrong with being cordial. And look, you think he was surprised.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
No, probably not, Maybe a little bit, you never know,
maybe a little bit surprised about wait, wait, wait about
the birthday or about the being cut.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Well, probably more the birthday, though they sent that out
and get Yeah, they're not gonna cut I'm not saying
from a negative side.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
They just wished me happy birthday. They're not gonna cut me.
Come on, oh wow, they just cut me. See, I
would go even further. If I'm gonna cut somebody, let
him go. I would have cake, and I would have
a big cake. And the cake would say sorry, you're
cut or you're fired. And in anyway you're gonna get
cut or fired anyway, but at least now you have
cake before it happens.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Yeah, I would walk in the.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Blow everybody a little bit of love on the way
out the door. They celebrate your time there and off
you go. I can get behind that. I like that.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Yeah, yeah, I get kick. I get cake.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well listen, you're gonna cut me anyway, so but hey,
but I get cake, and I like the cack cake
is pretty good.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Then how long do I have till I have to leave?
I just finish the cake, say you're goodbyes, and then
you can go, all right, great, thanks up here. I
might want another piece? Yeah, yeah, I know the cake
is for you. It's all gonna and what does you want?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Yeah? And then then you go whenever you want to. Okay,
that works fine.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
And then he does an Irish goodbye and he says
nothing to anybody, just leaves.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
That's all. Just we're just walking out.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Just good Yeah it was his last day anyway. Do
you really care?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh he never said goodbye. Yeah, and the guy just
like I think he left like an hour ago. Oh,
I never got to say goodbye him. Yeah, you'll probably.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Never see him.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
He turned a message into the hedges.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
What does that?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Oh? I think he actually uh, he wrote a message
on your car with his key there it is.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Hey, no, that's only you jerk.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Now, listen, I only threatened the key cars. When when
people do things that I'm not happy about, have I.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Really done it? You don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
We don't know, man, And that's that's the problem here,
is that we we don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Maybe I haven't.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
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Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, you mentioned Josh Donaldson just got waived by the Yankees.
He's like the he's like the poster boy for the
Yankees failure of this year. So his signing was such
a disaster. Uh, it's it's it's it's it's it's amazing.
This is a guy that earlier on his career he
had three years with a war over seven, right, but
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he hadn't been really good in a long time. And
the Yankees decide, hey, let's go bring him in and
play him every day when he's thirty six And he
was just a guy barely last year and less than
just a guy this year. He only played in thirty
three games. I mean, just just what a disaster that
signing was for the Yankees. I was alway feeling, hey,
here's Brian Casher going. See I'm already I'm already hard
(21:56):
at work for next year. I'm clearing out this year.
Can't fire me. I'm I'm in charge of it. I've
put myself in charge of everything. I gotta stay. All
these other guys are gonna go because I'm already working
on twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
How much money does this save him? If somebody claims
him no, I okay, if we're gonna do it to
the Angels, let's do. But I do like that. Give
him the old razzle dazzle, a little Vegas misdirection. See
he was a failure. We fixed the glitch.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I'm gonna give you my first Big Bowl prediction Lock
of the Week for the NFL, and I'm gonna get
their courtesy of hard knocks.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
If you remember last week Jets.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
And the Giants, Aaron Rodgers first action of the preseason,
first action as a Jet, he got into it with
one of the Giants defensive linemen, jahad Ward, and he
went back and forth at him. There's a little bit
of trash talking after ward. Took a few steps after
Rogers threw a pass and hit Rogers. Now clearly you
can't hit a guy after that many steps, but he
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did so Rogers and he go back and forth. And
when he was asked after the game, hey, what happened,
he said, well, you gotta wait for hard knocks because
he goes at it with jahad Ward and then the
next play he throws his touchdown pass to Garrett Wilson.
What did that sound like on Hard knocks? What did
he say to jahad Ward that he's saying you could
not come back from here?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
It is, I just bootleg out to the left, flipping
it left. It's McCall Hartman.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Bro that goes in respect well that five damn said,
I don't know who you are.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Bro I don't know whether you know I'll never hear you.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
And the officials having to depart, jehad Ward and Aaron
Rodger drops back. Love's one.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Brock left my lod get his Garrett Wilson j.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Left that.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
O Cobar.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
I'm not heard of you now.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
I gave him the line it's on comeback with a bull.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
I said, I don't even know who you are. And
he said, he said, I don't know who you are.
I said, quote, I don't know you. That's like a
I don't know you. I don't know who you are.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I don't know you either.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I'm Aaron Rodgers. Man, come on, I know you know
who I am. Let's not I don't know who you are.
So that's Rogers saying, what are you doing man? Because
he did he did take about five steps, and you
can't do It's the it's the uh, the whole Patrick Maholmes.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Du don't punch me, dude, don't punch me. Just don't
punch me.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
He does take a few steps, and that's what Rogers said, Dude,
I had never heard of you. Then he throws the touchdown, says,
you poked the bear. You heard him say a little
bit right there, you poked the bear. I never heard
of you. And then for John Ward, who's like he
doesn't know what to say, says, I never heard of you.
I mean, come really not good? Anything else to say? Yeah,
nothing else that I never heard of you. No, come on, wit,
everybody's heard of him. You gotta get you gotta give
me something better than that. You gotta give me something
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better than that.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
I gotta say one of the things I have enjoyed immensely. Remember,
the foreshadowing was Randall Cobbs saying, Hey, you guys think
it's all fun and good, now just wait. Well the
beginning of the episode, you got to just wait moment. Yeah,
with a bunch of bad work on the practice field.
And I think for f bombs he got, he got
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pretty close to Salah or to what we got from
Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, because he you know, he was doing
some ass there the opening here.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And especially But the thing is because Sala just throws
it in like he says the word all the time,
like there's no emphasis of the word, like he uses
it as an adjective, as an adverb, you know, as
a state of being verb he uses in all different ways,
like like this is how I speak, This is how
I know. Like I'm not gonna say, hey, you bleep
in this, but no, no, no, I'm just gonna say the
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word like it's like I'm saying any other word, like
I'm saying car, like I'm saying like I'm saying toy.
But let me tell you this. Right week one, I
know the Jets are two and a half point under
dogs against the Bills. They are going to smash the Bills.
Is this is not just me, this is not just
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me being Jet fan, But you're talking about a Jets
roster that you know, forget about out what everybody else
you've heard. Oh, I don't like this, So I don't
like this. The Jets roster is loaded. It's a top
three roster in the NFL. Now, on paper, that's great
and you got to prove it. But all that was
missing was a quarterback. Ohays, are we healthy at running back?
We're gonna go get Dalvin Cook, who had his first
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practice with the Jets day. He says, I'm gonna be
ready for Week one already feels very comfortable in the system.
The Jets had one huge weakness, and they bring in
a future Hall of Fame quarterback who has re energized
and has taken command of the entire team. All right,
they just call him eight. They just say eight eight eight.
This is eights team. And you think about MetLife, which
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is going to be ready to bleep and explode after
a decade of sucking and a defense that's already lights
out right now, think about all of that, and now
the Bill's part of it. The window for the Bills
might not be open anymore. They've been really good in
the last few years, but now they're dealing with a
preseason in which they've not looked good on the field,
And every couple of weeks is is Stefon Diggs really have?
(27:00):
Does Stefon Diggs want to be traded? Are they gonna
be able to run the football? Can they throw it
like they used to be able to? The Jets already
beat the Bills last year with Zach Wilson at quarterback once,
So okay, how do you prepare for the Jets offense?
You have no idea what it looks like. You have
no idea. You saw two drives, very vanilla that they had.
That's all you can look at. The Jets are gonna
smash the Bills, and they are going to announce their
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presence with authority for this season. It's gonna be it's
gonna take the NFL by surprise. Wait a minute, the
Bills were the big Super Bowl favorites, and the Jets
go win this game. They win this game big Week one.
Trust me, the Jets are gonna smash the Bills. I
don't even want the two and a half points. I
would say, listen, thank you to the two and a
half points, but I'd like you to offer him to
somebody else who might need them, right like they give
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him to Bill Belichick because clearly he's going in with
one quarterback and I don't know he knows what he's
doing anymore. So give him the two and a half
points he can use whoever he needs. To give him
to somebody else because we don't really need him here
in New York. I'm sorry, Wow, look at you.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
I dig that. I like the confidence. Would you put
a bunch of beer on it?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Will there be beer? Well?
Speaker 5 (28:05):
I mean we've got a bar that says, hey, you know,
if Aaron Rodgers loses you don't pay for your beer, I'll.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Put beer, food, donuts, fat sALS. What do you want?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
What do you want about on that big what do
you want to better? Take the bills, You'll take the bills.
I'll go fat sALS with.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
You, Okay, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
I'll go bougie sandwich, are you or I'll actually go
to Arts Deli?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Okay, and then we'll eat it.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Will video record us eating giant stack sandwiches and send
it to our guy, Jason Cole.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
They are going to smash the bills week one. It's
going to be a shocker and no one's going to
be ready for it. And it's happening. It's happening. I
can't wait to see Sauces Gardner and Stefan Diggs. I
can't wait to see that. I can wait see Josh
Allen going. Uh is Dalton Kincaid ready to play because
nobody else is open?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I don't know, man, You know what.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
This this whole run of hard knocks all of a sudden,
People like, hey, Garrett Wilson's gonna be a problem. He
was a problem with me throwing to him last year.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah oh yeah, yeah, I mean looked at the look
you talked the guy's people. What do you mean he's
the offensive rookie of the year. Suddenly now they're just discovering.
Oh hey he might be pretty good.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
This guy might be good. I don't know. Look out,
come on, man, this guy tell me you didn't watch
last season without telling me you didn't watch last year.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
This is this is the fantasy guy who says Garrett
Wilson might be my breakout player for this year.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
He's broken out. He had seventy seven catches for what
are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (29:37):
He well, he might catch at ninety he's my breakout player.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Oh he might catch one hundred and fifty. Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
As much as as much as Rogers likes lizard and
he may throw something to com and McColl hardman.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, it's gonna be seventeen.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You're gonna see a lot of eight seventeen, eight seventeen
all season long.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Yeah, no, no, no, I mean, look, I was going to
ninety as a joke, just from the breakout potentials, like, yes,
the bass is pretty well established.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Ninety by the bye, I'll say that, and then maybe
more they're gonna smash the bills. Good luck, Rob telling
you Week one, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets especially no Von Miller. No, right,
he's out first four weeks. He's on the pup list.
Jet j The guy, the guy's had so many big
games against the Jets.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Oh, I'm so happy, so happy?
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Why are you? Are you happy the guy's hurt?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
No, I'm happy he's not gonna play. I'm not happy
he's hurt. I'm happy he's not going to play. We
have to worry about him. I'd never want an injury
on anybody, but the fact that he's not playing, I
can't say, oh, boy, I wish he was playing because
he's great.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
So okay, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
It's all of it, anybody. I'm just happy he's not
just happy he's not playing. I'm happy he's not playing.
It's all just happy he's not playing. But we would
still smash the bills regardless whether uh eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine ninety six
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Uh.
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a no hitter. Thirty five year old was mowing down
the reds.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
The Giants had an error. He also walked a batter
of the ninth inning, so there was no shot at
a perfect game. All he had to do was get
Spencer Steer out two outs ninth inning runner at first
a six run lead. Spencer Stears having a pretty good season,
is a pretty good young player, one out of way
from no hitter, and this is the play of the night.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
Oh one pitch, there's a drive in the right side
of field. On the run, Mato's back into his right
and it's over his head. It we'll roll into the
sixth archway and that's the first hit coming around to
score is senzal And to the sixth to one, and
that takes away the no hitter for Alex Kahn.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
KNBR Giants Radio Network on the call. Now, there's so.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Many good things from this because what I'll tell you
what I love first is I love the fact that
Gabe Kapler number one left him in the game to
try to get the no hitter. Because he goes into
the ninth inning at one hundred and thirteen pitches. Dave
Roberts would have been taken him out of the game
in the fourth inning, so.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
He let him in.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
And not only that, after he gives up the hit,
you know, at one hundred and thirty five pitches, it's okay,
time for you to come out of the game because
the Giants are trying for the playoffs. Right there's six
games over five hundred. You know, he's been pitching pretty
well for them this season. Okay, no, no, no, I'm
gonna leave you in to finish this so you can
get the ovation you can get the people come, the
players coming out of the dugout for you everything you deserve.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
I love the fact that Gabe Kapler did that for him.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
That's one of those moves that, as much as you
like a manager, makes you want to play four more
because hey, yes, you threw a lot of pitches and
people are gonna say, oh, it's too many, and you
worry about somebody's arm. Thirty five years old, he's going
for what would be the greatest individual memory of his career.
Not only did he leave him out there to get it,
he left him out there for the complete game to
get everything else coming to him in the celebration after.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I love that Gabe Kapler did that.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Veteran manager, veteran of the game, played in between the
white lines. He knows what this means, right, thirty five
year old, you're also up six nothing. Why burn your bullpen?
You got a guy that's that's going just go out there,
throw nice and easy. Now. Cobb's gonna hate the fact
that he left that one up in the zone to
get hammered as it did, but it was a tremendous
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effort by him. One hundred and thirty one pitches my goodness.
I mean that's three days work for most pitchers these days.
And then you're looking at the fact that that kapler
knows his dugout knows they need a push here going
into the final month. Yeah, do it for the veteran.
Let him finish the job that he started.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Now, here's the other part of it that would drive
me crazy. Is Luis Matos takes a horrible route to
this ball and he gets a bad jump on it,
and he might have been able to get it. Now
Spencer Steeer gives this ball a ride. It's into the
gap and right center. But you watch Matos and the
first thing he does is take two steps in, and
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he's cooked. He's cooked at that point. Then he starts
to take a route to the ball that's kind of
straight across when he needed to go back, and he
winds up leaping in the air and he's not even
close to it.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
He's ten feet away.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Steps forward two step back only works when you're dancing
with Paula Abduel.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
No, And look, and this is what I tell my
outfielders when they play, so listen, your first step is
always back. You can always come in. Your first step
has to be back. And that's true when you're seven,
when you're fourteen, when you're twenty one, when you're playing
in Major League baseball, your first step is back. You
can always commit. And I get that you want to
guard against the looper because you just watched Slater make
a huge play to save the no hitter in the
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eighth inning on a little looper. But you got to
take a better you got to get a better jump,
You got to read that ball better. Right, You've been
in the major leagues a long time, and you had
a horrible jump on it. And not only that, you
had a bad route to it.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
At the end.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Maybe he catches it, maybe he doesn't, but I know
he's got a shot at it, and you know, you
put yourself in the best position to do it. And
I watched Matos and I go, oh, that that's a
horrible route to the ball. He's gotta feel terrible about that.
And if and if.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I'm Cob, I'm like, dude, what the hell was that?
Speaker 5 (37:08):
Man?
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Good, what what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
What was He's gonna watch replay and go oh, that
totally screwed me, That completely screwed me.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
Well, we'll find out a lot about Cob what's that
internal dialogue? Man, I left one up in the zone
and he hammered it. Mine drive not much loft on it, right,
I'm in tough catch as opposed to you know what,
if he's just taken two steps towards that Baltimore Chicago
score at the bottom of the uh the wall, there
(37:38):
might have been able to save my no hitter and
I'd been making money for the rest of my life
off that.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Ask me the real question, Ask me the real question.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
That I want to ask.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Ahead, say it. Say it out of Fresco exit swollen dumb.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
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